Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-08-13

hnard ~ citv ntiicials can sova treble
tbis amount ner annum from the eypen-
dtures nov made for pubIic otfairs.
The lnmber iron. GLASS. stone. nails.
rails, electric plant, machinery. etc. can
all he boupht ON time secured by bond
executed upon the finished enterprises
and drawing small interest.
The only real obstacle is where to find
the means of paying $500. 900 monthly to
the toilers who shall create and admins
fer these enterprises; this is how we shall
do il:
Each man who goes to work will be
maid in Ltloy Notes reading somewhat AZ
follows.
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a,lS G t ~, ~ l ~ nl noN bNuM nag
Arapahoe one Day. and that his labor is of the
value of s. This certificate will be received
ia paymont, ny san ti,y ana County TOR water
for fnnr min service fHr wheat stora@e fnr
transit or for lighting for bathing or laundry.
ne la ana Tor - per cent Oh all taxes que Said
wy u 0'"'''' '''S"e"''
There is not an inhabtant of Denver
who would not receive those notes i'm
payment for food, clothing, shelter, or
any other goods or wares he had for
sale.
Receivable for one quarter of all the
taxes due for water for baths, for laun-
dries, for bread, for milling, for storage,
for transit, or lighting, every person
would find use for them.
They would not be an irredeemabc
currency because they would be only
issued in return for labor done and would
he received in pavment for the product
Of that labor. AS soon ms received for
Goods Inv fine authorities they sbolh he
cancelled and DESTROYED. Here would
he the long looked-for perfect medium
of EXCHANGE. Money would he fulGIlinp
its twc mission. and the same blow thai
struck Profit with death wound Hyouoh
Rent alone wonld remain TO he taxed
back TO the State through the legislative
mowers The certificate should be re-
ceiyed for one-fourth of the taxes due
because that figure at least will represent
tbe saving in present expenditnres Sc
cured bv the community by having hon
est officials in place.
There is an immense amount of men,
tal confusion abroad concerning the
''monny ouestion" due entirely to the
ohfustiiications of the canitaIist press.
| NOT one person ont of a Thousand has
the SLIGHTEST plimmer of a clear idea con-
crrnino fine t1,e laws GOVERNING the OK
change of commodities by use of money,
or what "monev" is. A few words mon
This subject will therefore be pardoned.
No man really works for uopeu but
| simnly to GET sometime that will buv
ooods, He would not receive cold silver.
ar paner if he couh not get for them
bread. clothes and shelter, A man Ia
| hors under our comnlex system for
"money" simply because the smoney''
will buy back either a norton of the
ooods that he has produced or equivalent
goods of a different kind nroduced nv
another workman. He works because
he has to be sheltered, clothed and fed;
| if the money he received would not bny
qoods he would not take it; he couldn't
build a house of the ereenbacks. nor
make a coat of a nickel. nor eat silver
dollar, 1t is 0oods that he works for
Consequently he will receive as his nav
anmhinQ nat wW buv goods and any
thing that will give him an increased
supply of goods will suit him better than
what he has at present.
Now the figures of production show
that the average American worker at
the present hour only receives in woqes
value enough to buy back about one
tenth of his product; in other words the
baker has to bake nine loa1es of bread
for which he gets no pay for some one
else before he is allowed to produce the
tenth loaf the value of which goes into
his own pocket; the blacksmith, miner,
carpenter, etc. do the same: nine blows
of the hammer for somebody else before
they get in the tenth blow for themselves.
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